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"A regenerated doctoral thesis ... [originally presented] at the University of Chicago."

Description:

xxviii, 307 pages 23 cm

Contents:

Part I: The new interest in Shakespeare --
A preliminary survey, 1660-1765 --
The scholarly interest --
The popular interest --
Part II: Shakespeare defended against traditional objections --
The unities rejected --
Shakespeare's classical learning --
Shakespeare and decorum; other points of attack --
The attack upon alteration of plays --
The reaction against Voltaire --
Part III: The older eulogy develops new emphases --
The persistence of the older eulogy --
New emphases: Shakespeare as conscious artist and as moral philosopher --
Appreciation of characters --
The psychologizing of Shakespeare --
Historical criticism in the late eighteenth century --
Idolatry ad astra --
Part IV: The early nineteenth century and Shakespeare --
The reflection of late eighteenth-century views in Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the magazines --
Some clues to the direct indebtedness of Coleridge, Lam, and Hazlitt to eighteenth-century criticism.